By 2025 10 percent of global GDP will be stored on blockchains or blockchain-related technology, a World Economic Forum report predicts. Bitcoin’s price has risen nearly 2,000 percent in the last year, but its underlying blockchain technology is probably the better long-term bet. Blockchain is a digital log file, cryptographically protected, that secures online transactions. The first official transaction valued 10,000 bitcoins for about $20 in pizza for about a pizza. Today, bitcoins are worth substantially more, over $16,000 at this writing.”]
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